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In Conway v. Cutler Group, Inc., 57 A.3d 155 (Pa. Super 2012), the Pennsylvania Superior Court held for the first time that a subsequent buyer of a home, who has no contractual privity with the contractor, can nonetheless assert claims against the contractor for beach of the implied warranty of ... Read More »

Personal income taxThe personal income tax rate is 10%. Income in the form of dividends received from sources in and outside Kazakhstan are taxed at a rate of 5% (Article 158 (1),(2) Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 99-IV On Taxes and Other Mandatory Payments to the Budget dated ... Read More »

On 26 March 2013 the Higher Commercial Court of the Russian Federation set a judicial precedent concerning owners of offshore companies. The Court heard a case in which the defendant was a company registered in the Commonwealth of Dominica whose legislation offers preferential tax treatment and does not provide for ... Read More »

On 25.1.2012 the Parliament of the Czech Republic approved the new Act on business corporations (the “BCA”), which will become effective as of 1.1.2014. The BCA, together with the new Civil Code, are the fundamental grounds of the recodification of the Czech civil law. Read More »

Working time is a hot issue in French employment law. French law restricts working time, usually on the basis of the number of hours worked per week, this being the famous, (or notorious!) French Read More »

India’s growth since 1992 is a result of two complementary factors – a relaxed regulatory regime and the Indian entrepreneurial spirit reflected in successful private enterprise. The Satyam scam and a few Read More »

As of 1 March 2013 the Danish Competition Act is now including imprisonment as part of the punishment to cartels applying the same definition as within the EU regulation in article 101 of the Treaty Read More »

The Spanish Council of Ministers meeting held on Friday 25 January has given the green light to the Market Unity Guarantees Bill (hereinafter, the “Act”) aimed at ensuring the free movement of Read More »